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tram

 
/træm/ n [C]

Definition

an electric vehicle that is similar to a bus but travels on tracks laid along roads: I hopped off the tram near the park. A tram is also a car that travels on a heavy wire up mountains or across rivers.
(Definition of tram n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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